Harry Redknapp has got his retaliation in first by describing as "pathetic" claims he expects to be made against him in the BBC's Panorama investigation into illegal payments in football.

The Portsmouth boss insists he is "one million per cent innocent" of any wrong-doing and is unconcerned about the content of the programme, to be screened on BBC1 on Tuesday evening.

"I think they're trying to say they've caught me tapping up a player - but it's pathetic," he has told the News of the World.